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Narrative hook The narrative hook is an idea or suggestion in a story that grabs the reader’s attention right from the start. What hooks one person, of course, may not appeal to another.

Advice The Personal Touch: Using Anecdotes to Hook a Reader It isn’t as easy to pull off as it might seem. By Theresa MacPhail May 29, 2015 Plate I from George M. Kelson’s The Salmon Fly (1895) ...

Another way to hook the reader is to raise some unanswered questions, setting them a puzzle. A writer might deliberately set the reader up to ask questions about the environment, or about a character.

The reader is hooked. Think Philip Marlowe eyeing the glamorous blonde seated in his ratty office chair, knowing he should run for his life, knowing that he won't. 'The Last to Die' ADVERTISEMENT ...

A first issue has one goal that should be placed above all others: hook the reader. It is your introduction to a new story and an invitation to come back for more. Despite floating a vaguely ...